"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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It's not that I don't "get" your argument, Pete. It's that I think
your argument is irrelevant to the thread, and your debate style is so
rude as to reduce your arguments to noise.

"My argument"? It's not just "my argument". In fact, Jose is the person
who first attempted to politely put a fine point on it for you. In fact, he
tried twice, and both times you insisted on jerking him around in your
supposedly polite manner, while pointedly ignoring the underlying truth in
what he was saying.

As far as being "rude" goes, I suggest you look at your own reply to my post
elaborating on Jose's post. Rather than discussing the post itself, you
replied with an entirely condescending assessment of my own personality. I
hadn't written a single rude thing to you up until that point. It's a bit
disingenuous for you to accuse me of being rude, when in fact you serve up
great helpings of rudeness on a regular basis, in both veiled and overt
forms.

I try to be polite and explain *why* your argumentativeness is
irrelevant, and you continue to escalate your absurd examples until
you're talking about sodomy, and making personal attacks, in some sort
of a lame attempt to make a feeble point.

The point wasn't feeble, nor was the attempt lame. It only escalated to the
point to which it did because you refused to acknowledge Jose's point. The
point being made cuts right to the heart of the whole issue here. Your
inability to acknowledge the point is simply a symptom of your dismissively
rude treatment of anyone who might have an opinion different from yours.

And you have the nerve to call ME rude. Right. Frankly, I prefer the term
"disrespectful", and you have gone to great lengths to earn that disrespect,
through your own disrespect of others (including but hardly limited to
myself).